I messed up and put an HTML bold ( ) into my post, which made the text bold. I meant to put a less than sign, b, and greater than symbol.
So, what I meant was a cell having richtext editing, which would be outputted as HTML (which, of course, is plain text). Depending on the environment you're importing into, it may/should handle newlines within fields just fine.
Very interesting thinking. You may also be interested in The Managerial Revolution, a book by James Burham, an early American Trotskyite, and later conservative.
In it, he posits (among other things) that the separation of ownership and control had become a strong part of American economic thought. Burham thought that the managers (CEOs, etc.) appointed by owners through boards would set themselves up as a privileged class, with loyalty more toward their own interests than those of the owners.
He also analyzed whether capitalism was a permanent phenomenon, or one with a definite start and possible end.
OK, but what could that have to do with the Knight situation?
If there's no possible path (as opposed to an unlikely path), it'll never be executed, and hence it could not be responsible for the $440 mil loss, or the Toyota "brake failures" or whatever.
What he's likely saying is that, ideally, capital flows to those companies and endeavors "needing it" most, usually viewed in valuation, usually meaning paying customers want that companies products built and they are willing to buy.
Speaking of which, did you have an alternative?
Allocation of capital by central committee? That would be a totally "merit based system", right?
Well, if you're 70, you didn't just start investing at 69 and a half, right?
If you're 70, you probably didn't start when you got your first job (25). But you should have started at 35.
Failing that, you should have started at 40 when you first got the notion that you might not live forever, and your body first started showing signs of aging.
Wait, the NYSE was thinking of reversing trades? Which article was that in?
Not only that, but by definition, if they reverse $400 mil of trades, they have to get that money from somebody else. It's not "the market" they'd be getting it back from, but specific investors and shareholders who sold their securities.
Can they even do that? Force people to give money back?
Or is it like Paypal where they're linked in to your bank account and can take money whenever they want?
With the onslaught of Apple, it's touching to read a Linux success story, like in the old days of Slashdot.
The story of these 6th graders gives lie to the claim of TCO, training and so on. If kids can figure it out, what's wrong with you (talking to you dumb office workers).
Seriously, I'm beginning to think that we may need a new economic model.
What was the problem that they were attempting to solve?
You've got all these teams of engineers and designers, and so somebody comes up with a crazy plan to totally redesign the UI of a car. Oops, did I say user interface? I meant user "experience".
Interface is when you go to Walmart. The interface for paying for your stuff is take your shopping cart to the line. Experience is when you go to Nordstrom's. You sit on a sofa and they take your card.
Everybody wants to give an "experience" these days.
>A more modern definition of "smartphone" might include things like a sensor suite (camera isn't enough anymore, a GPS at least is expected), a powerful processor (which it has, at least powerful enough to easily qualify), a touchscreen, and some kind of "app store" even if it's almost nothing compared to what Apple and Google offer.
Would three out of four do it for you? Sensor suite: Well it doesn't have GPS, but it does have an accelerometer. (Side note: Can an accelerometer make do as a poor mans' GPS by keeping track of all movements from the factory?)
Powerful processor: 1Ghz processor
Touchscreen: Though less resolution than others at 240x400. 3" screen.
Appstore: Getjar.com, Ovi.com, and wherever else you want to get apps from.
Also these smart features not available in iPhones: Use whatever carrier you want. Use your hardware without getting permission from Cupertino or Mountain View. Open file system, load whatever you want. Install whatever app you want, from wherever. Dual SIMs (multiple phone numbers, one for work, one for play) Expandable storage. Dual camera (not on original iPhone) FM Radio (not on original iPhone, I believe) Huge talktime Replaceable battery (I believe)
By the way, the original iPhone did not feature apps (programs that run your phone). It only had "webapps". By that measure, this is definitely a smartphone.
" widely depicted as smartphones" "Nokia must mask its feature phones as smartphones" "far from actually qualifying as smartphones" "sheen of smartphoniness" "trick the consumers into believing they are using a smartphone" "Jurassic-era specs for Western smartphone fans" "true smartphones" "phony smartphone strategy"
But nowhere does it actually deign to define a "smartphone"!
When you talk about Apple's huge profits, are you talking from the perspective of a shareholder?
Or a customer?
Because, for some reason, when people talk about oil companies' record profits, they seem to never think of that as a good thing. In fact, Congress actually brings oilco execs to testify when they get too profitable. Strange how no one has ever thought to do the same to Apple, much less a windfall profits tax.
He calls the carriers bad guys because they're rolling in profits and dictating what you can do and not do.
He fails to apply the same standard to Apple. In the case of Apple, fans actually boast of the huge profit margins on each phone plus the fact that you can't do anything Apple doesn't allow you to is viewed as Apple protecting you.
Well, probably idiots like me. I like having a numpad on a laptop. I specifically rejected a few HPs and Dells because they didn't have one. Among other things, there are some nifty keyboard shortcuts for positioning windows that use the numpad in Ubuntu Unity.
Now: 1) Using a laptop at a fixed location (like your main office). Use a laptop keyboard. You put the laptop on the desk at 30" and the keyboard (whether USB or Bluetooth) at 25". Center the keyboard (F and J) on your belly button. You should also have a separate USB or Bluetooth mouse and not use the touchpad. The built-in keyboard and mouse are only if you are mobile, in which case you won't likely be using it for long.
2) Using the laptop away from your fixed location. If you need to take the laptop to a meeting or whatever: Just center the F and J on your belly button and type away.
Yeah, the right-most 2.5" of screen will be off-center. But how big of a deal is that? I mean, a 15.6" has barely a 13.5" screen. It's not like a 30" monster, half of which will be outside of your field of vision.
Finally, in most cases, a laptop isn't really meant for your lap. If you find yourself doing that a whole lot (to take notes at conferences), it would probably be better to have a driveless notebook without numpad, a Transformer, or a tablet. For portable computing power, get a standard 15.6" laptop with numpad and hard drives.
I think this is what you think I said: Put your arms parallel to the desk (30") and then put your keyboard at 25", meaning your arms will be inclined downwards.
Actually I say: Put your arms parallel to the keyboard tray (25" is good). So yeah, like you say, they would also be parallel to the ground. But the desk itself should be higher. The reason is you don't want your displays (whether it's your laptop or external monitor) to be too low. Otherwise you're setting yourself up for neck problems, bending your neck down constantly.
I have experienced extended bouts of severe pain two times over a decade. I had experimented with a lot of poses, including "classic typing" position, which I believe is the piano position. But all that, including different types of expensive chairs, were for naught.
Just getting a low chair, one that allows your feet to remain truly flat on the floor (as opposed to just your toes touching), is the best thing you can do.
While getting up every X minutes is a good idea (use WorkRave), if your sitting position is fundamentally non-broken, you won't find as much need to.
Chair 17 inches from floor to what you sit on. Desk 30" off ground. Keyboard tray 25" off ground. Feet on a footrest 9" off ground. Or sometimes on the floor.
I sit in highly unergonomic positions but still don't experience any pain.
Be sure to center the F and J keys on you navel. (Don't center a whole 104-key keyboard on you navel: the numpad throws it off center.) Optionally put the mouse on the left so it's not too far off to the right (again, because of the numpad).
The low chair allows you to keep your feet flat on the floor without bending your legs backward or feeling too much pressure on the underside of your thighs. Otherwise (with too high of a chair), your thighs are tilting downwards and you're forced to put your feet on the coaster assembly.
Don't bother with the classic typing position of holding your arms above the keyboard parallel to it, and dropping your hands down perpendicular to the keyboard. That hurts. Rest your palms or wrist on the keyboard or a rest. (Typing teachers tell you not to do that.)
Put your feet on the footrest, extend your legs to be straight and optionally lean back.
The mouse should be on the same level as the keyboard (25").
Slashdot Mirror
The text itself is not bold.
I messed up and put an HTML bold ( ) into my post, which made the text bold. I meant to put a less than sign, b, and greater than symbol.
So, what I meant was a cell having richtext editing, which would be outputted as HTML (which, of course, is plain text). Depending on the environment you're importing into, it may/should handle newlines within fields just fine.
Does this support HTML (richtext) editing in cells? I.e., different format for different words, not just the whole cell.
And then when you export it to CSV, it'll output "Bold text Non bold text" ?
Yeah, and for a lot of people (maybe 80%), that's all they need.
In fact Excel 95 was great. It even included a nice FPS game as an Easter egg.
Oh, OK, didn't know that, thanks.
Still, though, I find the idea of reversing trades distasteful.
I think it would impossible to do this without some level of favoritism.
And, of course, it's only when large traders lose money that they would do this, not when you or I lose money. ("Oops, I didn't mean to buy RIM!")
Anyone know if the Germans went through on buying NYSE (and if they're going to continue flying the giant American flags out front)?
Very interesting thinking. You may also be interested in The Managerial Revolution, a book by James Burham, an early American Trotskyite, and later conservative.
In it, he posits (among other things) that the separation of ownership and control had become a strong part of American economic thought. Burham thought that the managers (CEOs, etc.) appointed by owners through boards would set themselves up as a privileged class, with loyalty more toward their own interests than those of the owners.
He also analyzed whether capitalism was a permanent phenomenon, or one with a definite start and possible end.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burnham
OK, but what could that have to do with the Knight situation?
If there's no possible path (as opposed to an unlikely path), it'll never be executed, and hence it could not be responsible for the $440 mil loss, or the Toyota "brake failures" or whatever.
By Dead Code, you mean code that never (so far) executes?
That would also mean you'd never have any contingency code for "rocket has failed to propel" or other "shouldn't happen, but still" type situations.
What he's likely saying is that, ideally, capital flows to those companies and endeavors "needing it" most, usually viewed in valuation, usually meaning paying customers want that companies products built and they are willing to buy.
Speaking of which, did you have an alternative?
Allocation of capital by central committee? That would be a totally "merit based system", right?
Well, if you're 70, you didn't just start investing at 69 and a half, right?
If you're 70, you probably didn't start when you got your first job (25). But you should have started at 35.
Failing that, you should have started at 40 when you first got the notion that you might not live forever, and your body first started showing signs of aging.
You probably would have 66 times your money.
Wait, the NYSE was thinking of reversing trades? Which article was that in?
Not only that, but by definition, if they reverse $400 mil of trades, they have to get that money from somebody else. It's not "the market" they'd be getting it back from, but specific investors and shareholders who sold their securities.
Can they even do that? Force people to give money back?
Or is it like Paypal where they're linked in to your bank account and can take money whenever they want?
Probably so. Still, it seemed like a neat geeky idea.
If somebody hacks it together, it'll be standard "Geek does X" Slashdot material.
With the onslaught of Apple, it's touching to read a Linux success story, like in the old days of Slashdot.
The story of these 6th graders gives lie to the claim of TCO, training and so on. If kids can figure it out, what's wrong with you (talking to you dumb office workers).
A voice of sanity!
Seriously, I'm beginning to think that we may need a new economic model.
What was the problem that they were attempting to solve?
You've got all these teams of engineers and designers, and so somebody comes up with a crazy plan to totally redesign the UI of a car. Oops, did I say user interface? I meant user "experience".
Interface is when you go to Walmart. The interface for paying for your stuff is take your shopping cart to the line. Experience is when you go to Nordstrom's. You sit on a sofa and they take your card.
Everybody wants to give an "experience" these days.
>A more modern definition of "smartphone" might include things like a sensor suite (camera isn't enough anymore, a GPS at least is expected), a powerful processor (which it has, at least powerful enough to easily qualify), a touchscreen, and some kind of "app store" even if it's almost nothing compared to what Apple and Google offer.
Would three out of four do it for you?
Sensor suite: Well it doesn't have GPS, but it does have an accelerometer. (Side note: Can an accelerometer make do as a poor mans' GPS by keeping track of all movements from the factory?)
Powerful processor: 1Ghz processor
Touchscreen: Though less resolution than others at 240x400. 3" screen.
Appstore: Getjar.com, Ovi.com, and wherever else you want to get apps from.
Also these smart features not available in iPhones:
Use whatever carrier you want.
Use your hardware without getting permission from Cupertino or Mountain View.
Open file system, load whatever you want.
Install whatever app you want, from wherever.
Dual SIMs (multiple phone numbers, one for work, one for play)
Expandable storage.
Dual camera (not on original iPhone)
FM Radio (not on original iPhone, I believe)
Huge talktime
Replaceable battery (I believe)
By the way, the original iPhone did not feature apps (programs that run your phone). It only had "webapps". By that measure, this is definitely a smartphone.
The article has a lot of phrases like:
" widely depicted as smartphones"
"Nokia must mask its feature phones as smartphones"
"far from actually qualifying as smartphones"
"sheen of smartphoniness"
"trick the consumers into believing they are using a smartphone"
"Jurassic-era specs for Western smartphone fans"
"true smartphones"
"phony smartphone strategy"
But nowhere does it actually deign to define a "smartphone"!
OK, and who says S40 Java-based phones cannot install apps?
http://www.getjar.com/
Install all the J2ME apps you want.
If you want to install the apps from your phone, just go to m.getjar.com.
Or any one of a number of other places. Or Nokia's own appstore.
Any other so-called differences between "smart" phones and "feature" phones?
Does anybody have some good recommendations for cloud servers?
I.e., a setup that would allow you to easily add webservers and possibly database servers as demand increases and decreases?
Using Ubuntu or RHell?
Preferably working with Rackspace et alia in addition to Amazon.
When you talk about Apple's huge profits, are you talking from the perspective of a shareholder?
Or a customer?
Because, for some reason, when people talk about oil companies' record profits, they seem to never think of that as a good thing. In fact, Congress actually brings oilco execs to testify when they get too profitable. Strange how no one has ever thought to do the same to Apple, much less a windfall profits tax.
He calls the carriers bad guys because they're rolling in profits and dictating what you can do and not do.
He fails to apply the same standard to Apple. In the case of Apple, fans actually boast of the huge profit margins on each phone plus the fact that you can't do anything Apple doesn't allow you to is viewed as Apple protecting you.
All good advice.
Let me clarify: I don't mean that you should sit in a position that hurts, and just suck it up and keep moving on.
You should, on the other hand, sit in a neutral position which doesn't put any stress on key parts of your body (wrists, shoulders, back).
Once you do that, you don't have to sit in those "ergonomic" positions that website articles on the subject are always talking about.
Although some of the benefits seem compelling, I just have to ask:
How is it that in the case of display, we're supposed to drink the Mark Shuttleworth Koolaid that network display is bad.
But in the case of sound, we're told that network sound is good. Need I remind anyone of the pain associated with PulseAudio?
We were told it was for our own benefit, because, hey, you can pipe sound across the network! So suck it up.
But, now, network is bad.
It seems the only constant is: What ever Mark says is the tablets from Mt. Sinai.
Well, probably idiots like me. I like having a numpad on a laptop. I specifically rejected a few HPs and Dells because they didn't have one. Among other things, there are some nifty keyboard shortcuts for positioning windows that use the numpad in Ubuntu Unity.
Now: 1) Using a laptop at a fixed location (like your main office). Use a laptop keyboard. You put the laptop on the desk at 30" and the keyboard (whether USB or Bluetooth) at 25". Center the keyboard (F and J) on your belly button. You should also have a separate USB or Bluetooth mouse and not use the touchpad. The built-in keyboard and mouse are only if you are mobile, in which case you won't likely be using it for long.
2) Using the laptop away from your fixed location. If you need to take the laptop to a meeting or whatever: Just center the F and J on your belly button and type away.
Yeah, the right-most 2.5" of screen will be off-center. But how big of a deal is that? I mean, a 15.6" has barely a 13.5" screen. It's not like a 30" monster, half of which will be outside of your field of vision.
Finally, in most cases, a laptop isn't really meant for your lap. If you find yourself doing that a whole lot (to take notes at conferences), it would probably be better to have a driveless notebook without numpad, a Transformer, or a tablet. For portable computing power, get a standard 15.6" laptop with numpad and hard drives.
I think we're agreeing, sort of.
I think this is what you think I said: Put your arms parallel to the desk (30") and then put your keyboard at 25", meaning your arms will be inclined downwards.
Actually I say: Put your arms parallel to the keyboard tray (25" is good). So yeah, like you say, they would also be parallel to the ground. But the desk itself should be higher. The reason is you don't want your displays (whether it's your laptop or external monitor) to be too low. Otherwise you're setting yourself up for neck problems, bending your neck down constantly.
I have experienced extended bouts of severe pain two times over a decade. I had experimented with a lot of poses, including "classic typing" position, which I believe is the piano position. But all that, including different types of expensive chairs, were for naught.
Just getting a low chair, one that allows your feet to remain truly flat on the floor (as opposed to just your toes touching), is the best thing you can do.
While getting up every X minutes is a good idea (use WorkRave), if your sitting position is fundamentally non-broken, you won't find as much need to.
Here's a position I can work in for 5 hours:
Chair 17 inches from floor to what you sit on.
Desk 30" off ground.
Keyboard tray 25" off ground.
Feet on a footrest 9" off ground. Or sometimes on the floor.
I sit in highly unergonomic positions but still don't experience any pain.
Be sure to center the F and J keys on you navel. (Don't center a whole 104-key keyboard on you navel: the numpad throws it off center.) Optionally put the mouse on the left so it's not too far off to the right (again, because of the numpad).
The low chair allows you to keep your feet flat on the floor without bending your legs backward or feeling too much pressure on the underside of your thighs. Otherwise (with too high of a chair), your thighs are tilting downwards and you're forced to put your feet on the coaster assembly.
Don't bother with the classic typing position of holding your arms above the keyboard parallel to it, and dropping your hands down perpendicular to the keyboard. That hurts. Rest your palms or wrist on the keyboard or a rest. (Typing teachers tell you not to do that.)
Put your feet on the footrest, extend your legs to be straight and optionally lean back.
The mouse should be on the same level as the keyboard (25").
> Apple files for devoice and this is simply the child custody hearing.
Is devoice when you get a divorce for a device?